The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law

by Lutz Oette

The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm protecting persons from attacks on their dignity and integrity. Consequently, it has been at the forefront of a series of developments in international human rights law and international law more broadly. Having withstood sustained challenges to its absolute nature in the 'war on terror', it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198885628
• ISBN13: 9780198885627
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.1"